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Blogging from Adobe Contribute?

By Dennis Guten on April 22, 2010 No Comments

This is essentially a test to see how well the blogging feature works from within Adobe Contribute (I’m on CS3).

I created the connection, which worked well enough. It was a very quick set-up process to connect to the blog (as long as you have four pieces of information handy:

  • The blog URL (pretty easy one)
  • The user name for the WordPress admin
  • The WordPress admin password
  • The access point address, which in my case was simply the blog URL, plus /xmlrpc.php

I’m doing this so I can research this function for my work at UT Dallas to see if the feature is one we might want to use in other departments.

Categories : Software, UT Dallas, WordPress
Tags : Adobe Contribute, Software, UT Dallas, WordPress

Slide Show Pro is a Flash based player that is really customizable and fun to use

By Dennis Guten on December 24, 2008 No Comments

Slide Show Pro

I recently had to modify an online slide show for a site I was working on and had the pleasure of working with a shareware program called Slide Show Pro.

This software has a Flash based (.swf file) player that interacts with a standard XML file and a folder of images to create a very classy looking player that can be easily modified by the user.

I liked it so much I went and purchased the Flash version yesterday for the reasonable price of $29. It was easy to purchase with my PayPal balance or you can use a credit card.

You install it into Flash and then it is available as a component from within Flash. You just drag an instance of the player onto the stage and size it how you want. There are dozens of options available to customize the player via a simple drop down menu interface and the changes show up live on the stage.

Example of a player in Slide Show Pro

Making a folder of images interact with the player and the XML file is super easy and they have video help and instructions for the whole operation. You don’t even have to re-size the images before making it because the player adjusts all the images to the size of player you set.

I really love this program. Please check out the site and try the demo if you want to play around without committing to the $29 price.

I have already used it today on a site I am designing and it saved me many hours that I would have spent setting up a gallery by hand.

If you try one yourself, give me a link to the player so we can check out your example.

Categories : Flash, Freelance, Software, Web Design
Tags : Flash, Freelance, Shareware, Slide Show, SlideShoPro, Software

Add Google Maps to Your Blog the Easy Way With MapMyPage

By Dennis Guten on December 2, 2008 1 Comments

MapMyPage Logo

This morning I found a very cool blog tool called MapMyPage (in beta) that easily adds a link to a pop-up Google Maps page whenever you mention a location. Such as…Richardson, Texas and it adds a small globe that you can click on to get to the map.

All you have to do is add a simple few lines of javascript and it is all automatic (assuming that javascript is enabled).

I’m testing it now to see how it works and how much of a strain on the page load it makes.

Go check it out at MapMyPage.

Update 5-22-2011, the site has now gone away.

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